learn more about the condition at factsonhand.com tonight, the coronavirus exploding in record numbers across america and new fears, new action tonight in new york city. more than 152,000 new cases reported in just the last 24 hours in the u.s. new york's governor taking swift action tonight, seeing alarming numbers in the state. new orders for bars, restaurants and gyms, calling them the main spreaders of covid-19. and across the country, texas now with more than 1 million infections. the images from idaho, oklahoma, utah, the dakotas. the cdc now with new guidance for wearing masks.g on a secon vaccine, after that news from pfizer. the new warning tonight about thanksgiving. what the cdc is now recommending for americans celebrating the holiday. and concern over students returning home. more than 540 students forced to quarantine at uconn. notre dame refusing to allow

students to leave until they test negative. president trump tonight with no sign of conceding making his first public appearance in nearly a week. a wreath laying ceremony for veterans day. several judges now rejecting his legal challenges to the election. president-elect biden at the korean war memorial in philadelphia. as world leaders congratulate biden, british prime minister boris johnson, for one, who had a close bond with president trump, n refring to him as the previous president. in georgia, authorities now ordering a recouin by hahat nds by more than 14,000 votes. and tonight here, a reality check. what the typical recount finds. in the past, how much has it affected the original vote count? and, of course, the result would have to change in georgia and in several other states. and once a hurricane, the tropical storm now set to slam into the u.s. again tonight. rob marciano in the storm zone with the track. and on this veterans day, the heroes you met right here,

many of whom you'll remember. and tonight, their wish on this veterans day. good evening and it's great to have you with us here on this wednesday night, on this veterans day, we honor our nation's veterans and their wishes on this day, in just a moment here. but we begin tonight with the pandemic and alarming new numbers coming in and new york's governor taking action tonight amid new cases here. in fact, cases now rising in all 50 states, 152,000 new cases in just the past 24 hours. new york, the original epicenter, seeing a troubling curfew o.mn rest. aurants, bars gyms. the governor warning of stricter measures if this doesn't stop this new wave. texas tonight topping a million cases. the most in the nation. some hospitals crushed by a record number of patients in the icu.rth dakota hospitals nearin

capacity and the governor there now allowing health care workers who have covid but who are asymptomatic to come to work because there is such a need for front line workers. authorities had warned we would see this with the colder weather and americans heading indoors. and they now say it is going to get much worse unless we all act. abc's chief national correspondent matt gutman leading us off. >> reporter: tonight, new york, the original epicenter of the coronavirus, taking swift action in the face of a troubling sign. the positivity rate climbing to 2.9%, the highest since june. starting friday, a new curfew. bars, restaurants and gyms will close at 10:00 p.m. gatherings in private homes will be limited to ten people. >> if these numbers keep going crazy, you have some scientists who believe we're going to go back to a closedown. i'm just praying that doesn't happen. >> reporter: tonight, texas is the first state to surpass a million cases and the nation's new epicenter, el paso, parts of

which now look like a military field hospital. air force lieutenant colonel and doctor brock miller has been deployed to afghanistan, his medical unit now on the ground in el paso where covid is exploding. >> even compared to any experience i've had in my training or since deployment, it's also the busiest i've ever seen a hospital. >> reporter: one of that very hospital's covid patients is taylor soderberg. can you describe that feeling of, you know, what it's like to try to walk and get into the emergency room when you can't breathe? >> the feeling is like you're drowned. you know, you're just grasping for that breath. sorry. >> reporter: tonight, every state in the nation seeing hospitalizations, icu admissions and ventilator use on the rise. in oklahoma, hospitals are overwhelmed. >> our worst nightmare right now is having to choose between a patient in a car accident and a patient with covid. >> reporter: but the governor

resisting a mask mandate. and in south dakota, where the positivity rate is nearly seven times the national average, the city of sioux falls voting down a mask mandate. >> so, my official vots thhi t 5-4. >> reporter: that came just hours after the cdc updated its guidance, saying wearing a mask protects you, not just the people around you, adding, "adopting universal masking policies can help avert future lockdowns." in north dakota, staff shortages are so severe, health care workers with asymptomatic covid will keep working with covid patients. and every day, front line workers are watching their patients slip away. >> so it's just hard to see somebody passing in front of your eyes. you're gowned up and you can't see your face and you can't feel the touch of skin to skin. it's just extremely sad. >> reporter: in utah, 24-year-old jesse jenson is on a ventilator, struggling to survive, days after giving birth to a little girl.

>> after she comes home, i'm really looking forward to her being able to hold our daughter again. >> reporter: and tonight, on the heels of pfizer's progress of its vaccine, word today moderna will be announcing its results soon. >> we likely will see results from them probably sometime, i would think, in the next two weeks or two and a half to three weeks, which means you'll have two companies that will have vaccine available. >> so, let's get to matt gutman with us live tonight from el paso. and matt, there is a new forecast i know just out tonight as we come on the air, as well, looking at which parts of the country could actually see substantial growth in cases in the next coming weeks? >> reporter: policy lab, david, is predicting that substantial growth in the northeast through the mid-atlantic and significant growth in california and west coast cities like portland and seattle, roughly following those deadly trends that we've been seeing here in texas, the midwest and the rockies. david? >> but make no mistake, this is across the country tonight. matt gutman leading us off again. matt, thank you. and now to the growing

concern that thanksgiving could actually fuel the most dangerous spike yet. and tonight, the cdc with guidance for families planning to celebrate the holiday. here's abc's stephanie ramos. >> reporter: tonight, with thanksgiving just two weeks away, and the pandemic exploding, health officials warning close family gatherings could accelerate the surge. >> given how bad things are with the pandemic and how widespread the virus is, it's really difficult to have kind of a normal thanksgiving, large family gatherings. >> reporter: experts say half of all americans plan to travel for the holiday, going against those new cdc guidelines, which recommend celebrating thanksgiving virtually or only with people in your own household and preferably outside. for indoor dinners, the cdc says keep the windows open, spread out as much as possible and wear masks. the other major concern, college students bringing the virus home for the holiday. more than 540 university of connecticut students now in quarantine after two dozen

people tested positive. at notre dame, where thousands of students stormed the field after a win on saturday, students must test negative before they leave campus. yale university freshmen won't be allowed back on campus after the holiday. weston kerekes heading back to santa monica, but even though he'll be home in time for the holiday, he's not taking any chances. >> on thanksgiving, i'll still be in my room and we will eat together as a family on zoom. >> reporter: david, health officials caution about relying too heavily on testing. the incubation period for covid is up to 14 days, so, it is possible to test negative one day and become sick the next. here at rutgers university, students living on campus are tested weekly and if they do test positive, they are isolated on campus until they recover. david? >> all right, stephanie ramos tonight. stephanie, thank you. we're going to turn next this evening to president trump, unwilling to concede and his first appearance in nearly a week today, honoring veterans at arlington cemetery. president-elect joe biden laying a wreath at the korean war

memorial in philadelphia. as a growing number of world leaders congratulate biden. here's our chief white house correspondent jonathan karl. >> reporter: today, a new campaign 2020 milestone -- joe biden now leads donald trump by more than 5 million votes nationally, the largest popular vote victory since 2008. the president-elect and his wife jill traveled to philadelphia today to pay tribute to america's veterans. and the current president visited arlington national cemetery, but he has not spoken in public for nearly a week, the longest stretch of silence for donald trump since he became president. his only communication coming in the form of tweets, many making unfounded claims of election fraud. "the new york times" called election officials in all 50 states. the resulting banner headline -- "election officials nationwide find no fraud." still, only four republican senators have publicly

acknowledged joe biden as the president-elect. >> how do you expect to work with republicans if they won't even acknowledge you as president-elect? >> they will. they will. >> reporter: tonight, abc news has confirmed that joe biden's chief of staff will be former close aide ron klain. today, two former chiefs of staff for george w. bush and bill clinton wrote in "the washington post", quote, "our adversaries seek to take advantage of the united states during transitions. given the realities of the pandemic, delaying the launch of the transition could have real costs." but the outgoing secretary of state, in an apparent effort to please his boss, is echoing president trump. >> there will be a smooth transition to a second trump administration. >> reporter: it's clear the rest of the world is moving on from the trump presidency. secretary pompeo heads out on a trip this friday to seven countries. the leaders of all seven of them have already congratulated biden. and in britain, prime minister

boris johnson, one of president trump's closest allies on the world stage, today referred to him as, quote, "the previous president." >> i had and have a good relationship with the previous president, i do not resolve from that. but i'm delighted to find the many areas in which the incoming biden/harris administration is able to make common cause with us. >> the scene in the uk today. back here in the u.s., jon, a number of judges dismissing president trump's legal challenges to this election? >> reporter: yeah, and let me be blunt about this, david. none of this is going anywhere. for donald trump to win, they would have to either disqualify or change tens of thousands of votes and overturn the results in at least three different states. no indication that that is going to happen whatsoever, david. >> all right, jon, thank you. in georgia, meantime, authorities, though, are ordering a recount by hand of millions of ballots. joe biden leading in that state

by more than 14,000 votes. and so tonight here, a reality check. what the typical recount finds. and here's steve osunsami from georgia. >> reporter: georgia's republican secretary of state tonight still says that the election here was fair, but he's been feeling the blow torch from others in his own party and is now agreeing to give trump supporters an audit of the vote for president that currently has joe biden leading by more than 14,000 votes. the votes will be counted by hand and the election must be certified in nine days. >> it will take every bit of the time that we have left. >> reporter: the president's people have been claiming without evidence that there was significant voter fraud. sitting senators david perdue and kelly loeffler are leading those charges, and today, atlanta's major newspaper took the rare step of dressing both of them down on the front page, calling this "dangerous behavior." both are fighting for their seats in a runoff election in january and rallied the troops today. >> we are going to save the country. >> reporter: historically,

recounts rarely change things. of nearly 5,000 statewide elections in this country, 27 of them needed recounts, but only three of those changed the results. and the average change was just 282 votes. and again, joe biden is currently leading by more than 14,000 in georgia. even if the president won here in georgia, it wouldn't be enough. he would also need to win pennsylvania for sure, where he's behind more than 50,000 votes and he'd need to win in at least one other state where he's behind. david? >> all right, steve osunsami with us again tonight from atlanta. thank you, steve. we're going to turn now, though, to veterans day. the heroes you've met right here, many of whom you'll remember. we have long believed returning to the veterans we've met along the way has been so important. and so tonight, we do it again, we check in on them. and this evening, their wish on this veterans day. tonight, we go back to find the veterans you met right here. it was just last year, we documented our world war ii veterans and their return to normandy 75 years later.

there was the moment, strangers walking up to them to say thank you. onofrio zicari originally from geneva, new york, was so moved. >> thank you for everything you guys did for us, for your service. >> thank you. this whole beach, whole sections, as far as the eye could see, was just men coming ashore, coming ashore. unbelievable. >> nono told us he had one more wish. >> a lot of graves. look at all the crosses. oh boy. >> to find the grave of the friend he lost. holding the photograph of himself, standing before his friend's grave back during the war. 75 years later, he found the cross. donald e. simmons, who died on june 6th, 1944. what nono did not know was that donald simmons' family was watching our news. so moved by that moment, they wanted to meet nono. >> ah, there he is. i'm marie, don's sister.

and i'm pleased to meet you, mr. nono. >> i'm doris. i'm don's oldest sister. >> i'm elinor simmons and i was his sister-in-law. >> i'm bernie simmons, i'm don's brother. only one left. see the picture? >> definitely, yes. >> yeah, that's him. >> yep, that's him. >> months later, nono would travel to syracuse to meet donald simmons' family. >> what do we got here? >> they were waiting to shake his hand. >> i'm nono. >> tonight, nono telling us he has stayed in touch with donald's family, sending us this image of him in his .aygerahe honors our first responders, telling us he "hopes the pandemic will soon be over. god bless america." there was our trip to iraq one year ago. our servicemen and women still hunting down isis.crg dolhi fro pittsburgh, who had something he hwanceria fe.

>> so, i imagine she's waiting for you to come home. >> yes, sir. >> what's her name? >> emily. >> tell her we thank you for your service. >> yes, sir, i will. >> congratulations, by the way. major vonn wright, who told me back then, he couldn't wait to see his family. you'll be home in time for the holidays? >> i'll be home in time for the holidays. i look forward to it. >> not that you're counting or anything. >> no, of course not. ree' wd la g >> thank you so much. >> say hi to those kids. >> thank you so much. >> tonight, mayor wright back with his family in kentucky. his children shawn and olivia and his wife ros. >> hi, david. >> major wright and his wish tonight. >> my one wish to all the soldiers, servicemembers and veterans all over the globe, past and present, is that they know, as well as their families know, that their sacrifices that they made have not gone in vain. they are heroes in my eyes and everyone else's eyes here at ft. campbell, kentucky. >> he remembers the heroes who came before him and we do, too. stan friday from pennsylvania, who we met in normandy. at the time, he was receiving

france's top honor, the legion of honor, to thank him 75 years later. was not for him.n, that medal >> the medal part is for the guys that's out there, they're the heroes. i'm the stand-by. they're the heroes. >> every one of these men out he . i>> on t>>, htig veterans day, "don't forget what we did for freedom. se to fit.ad hwepo aur p we went to war to be free and we did our job. my message is to not let it be forgotten." and we've learned that stan just had another birthday. he is now 98. and i remembered talking to stan about birthdays while we were in normandy. >> god bless me. >> absolutely. what's your secret? >> i don't know. h?ea >> >> ayof iu d di not going to tell me. >> yeah, i'll tell you, i'll give you a hint. >> all right. >> i did all the wrong things years ago and i found out later on they come out right. >> they sure did. that was the secret. we do honor stan and all of our

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i'm spencer christian, as the week winds down, rain is on the way. abc 7 news at 6:00 begins now. >> announcer: building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc 7 news. if i'm doing everything i can to stop the spread, i'm going to keep doing that. >> that's the example for all of us. evidence shows what we're doing. i' dan liz kreutz. bad news again, it seems to blur together sometimes. >> it sure does. headlines are important. >> they are. right now there are more people sick enough from covid-19 to need hospital care than